Main points discussed in the session:
- Renewable energy can create context-specific trade-offs, considering that renewable energy installations, ancillary infrastructure, and upstream/ downstream activities could affect biodiversity through multiple mechanisms. It is important to delineate and conceptualize the trade-offs between biodiversity and renewable energy in a comprehensive manner.
- We need large-scale modeling exercises and comprehensive environmental impact assessments that explore the effects of different renewable energy scenarios/pathways on biodiversity in a spatially- and temporally-explicit manner.
- We need to reduce/eliminate misalignment between policies on renewable energy expansion and biodiversity conservation.
- Digital technologies can facilitate several mechanisms such as information-sharing, transparency, interconnectivity, value maximization, and automation to alleviate challenges in the woody biomass supply chain as a nature-based solution.
- lMeeting biodiversity and energy transition targets requires combined attention to: (a) energy infrastructure transitions; (b) changing land use; and (c) situated social identities.
Video : Session 3 : Breakout Group 2